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The Congress will “expose failures” of the BJP on several issues, including that of farmers and women, internal security, price rise and unemployment, in the run-up to the assembly polls in five states beginning February 10, party sources said on Tuesday. They said that as part of its campaign, senior Congress leaders will hold press conferences in all the poll-bound states on Wednesday on the issue of farmers. They said the party seeks to highlight how the BJP has failed to double farmers’ income and how it has burdened them with additional taxes on farm inputs and given the agrarian community pain due to the farm laws. Sources said the Congress will release the BJP’s report card on farmers’ issues simultaneously in different centres in the states of Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Uttarakhand and Manipur.